Billy Corgan - Stigmata: Music From The MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack

Patricia Arquette stars in this good vs. evil religious mystery thriller while Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan and Mike Garson score the movie's incidental music to create a perpetual sense of unease. The soundtrack begins with several conventional pop songs. Remy Zero's "Gramarye" is a track from their album that features a complex mix of ambient sea sounds and thick piano notes. Everyone's favorite merry pranksters Chumbawamba add a Stigmatic mix of "Mary Mary" that's as kinetic and close to the dance floor as politicos get. David Bowie charges up for "The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell," a robotic piece of machine rock. Sinead O'Connor rides the world beat groove with Afro Celt Sound System for "Release." Natalie Imbruglia delivers the Billy Corgan and Mike Garson signature track "Identify." The second half is instrumental music that succeeds as ambient tone poems, often featuring several tracks and rhythms rolled into one. --Rob O'Connor Amazon.com

New Age not Rock

I agree with the person who asked where is the music from the movie, not that I paid that close attention. It seems that here are about 5 or 6 "rock" songs and the rest is New Age. Not what I was expecting but OK. September 15, 2006

STIGMATA

Watched the dvd and that was ok but the movie track is terrible
listened to it couldn't wait till it finished as soon as I can ILL palm it off on someone , better maybe the rubblish tip would suit.
For the life of me how could anyone rate this CD above 1 July 19, 2006

An excellent soundtrack for an beautiful movie

Stigmata was one great movie, it was casted well, directed stunningly and dealed with a deep subject with due credit. It is one of the best movies I have seen related to the subject of the church and good vs evil. Whilst browsing my favourite DVD/CD shop I came across the movie sountrack and decided to opt to buy it and am glad I did.
Contrary to several people's complaints that the music from the movie was not on the sountrack, that is not correct, watching the movie before listening to the soundtrack, I did pick up 95% of the songs and the music sounds. What is most exciting about this album is that it incorporates music songs as well as music sounds that were played throughout the movie. Nearly all the tracks were supreme and yet at the end I did want to play it again. The Reflect pieces throughout the music tracks were mixed to create a mood of reflection within the innerself.
Well done to the movie and the soundtrack. What a masterful masterpiece. February 15, 2005

What A WEIRD, WILD, COOL Soundtrack This Is!

The soundtrack to Stigmata is most interesting. So is the movie. The first viewing of Stigmata in the theatre had me listening to the music more than watching the film on the big screen. These songs are THAT GOOD!

Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan and Mike Garson score the movie's music to create a perpetual sense of darkness, evilness, and general unease.

Some highlights are: Remy Zero's "Gramarye", Chumbawamba's "Mary Mary", Afro Celt System with "Release." Natalie Imbruglia and "Identify", "Inertia Creeps" by Massive Attack. Even Ol' David Bowie charges up for "The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell," a mechanical/NIN sounding (and produced by Trent Reznor) song.

I can't forget to mention the beautiful, "All Is Full Of Love", by the incomparable Bjork.

Most enjoyable movie. Most enjoyable soundtrack!

Happy Listening! June 4, 2004

"A mysterious work of Art..with a consistency to it !

I am a huge fan of trip hop music and I honestly have to say I was very pleased to hear a soundtrack that touch on it. I haven't heard a consistant works like this since 1996's "Lost Highway's" soundtrack. This CD has a lot of Jem's on it "Identify" is a beautiful Haunting discovery! I was highly upset when I got Natalie Imbruglia's "White Lilies Island" and found nothing that resembled this artistry! Bjork delivered a version of "All is full of Love" that was enchanting compared to the original. It has become a cult favorite in my collection it is so beautifully well done! Remi Zero's song is really artistic and has a creepy funky vibe to it. I even feel the opening track is a nice song to be kind of a hard rock vibe! This cd starts off with the evil rock sounds and dips into the creepy "Trip Hop" stuff into the instrumental(creepy sound effect) score material. Great transition in my opinion, but the only song that disrupts the total vibe of the project is "David Bowie's it is really retro and entirely to fast! I guess they contributed that in the "Lost Highway" tradition. But his song on "LOst Highway" was much more fitting and creative than this. This is a beautiful work, it has a lot of diversity to offer without sounding like everything was tacked together like most soundtracks.I would have to say this soundtrack opened my eye's to the remix of "All is full of LOve !" And it showed me Natalie, at her best, so I thank this selection for those masterpieces!In my opinion those two songs, are masterworks in the trip hop archieves! The other song's are good, not a waste of money or time at all but I had heard some of them already. The score material is basically Trip Hop instumentals in my opinion, very erie and creepy sound scapes! This soundtrack does create a certain mysterious vibe that will have you relaxing and turning on the Black Light! It may be a while before we see another soundtrack collection that captures the essience of european music and horror! I hate these horror movies that come out and have cheesy rock sountracks. In my opinion it takes alot of mystery and horror from the films, cheapens the movie makes them abit cheesy!

I hear that "Donnie Darko" Has a nice haunting score too it ! At least I liked what I heard in the film.........

A February 20, 2003

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